Newcastle Fans Have Their Say On Jacob Murphy And Javier Manquillo

Newcastle fans have taken to Twitter to discuss the imminent signing of 22 year-old Jacob Murphy and 23 year-old Javier Manquillo.

Most fans seem to link this with replacing Vurnon Anita at right back and Yoan Gouffran.

We got £5M for Anita from Leeds United and Yoan was a free agent and we are paying £10M initially for Murphy and maybe as much as £4M for Javier Manquillo if that – although we’ve seen no estimates of how much Javier would cost – but has just one year left on his Atletico Madrid contract.

22 year-old Jacon Murphy in Emngland’s colors

So we have paid a net of around 9M for Murphy and Manquillo and both are in the early 20s and they are ones for the future now at Newcastle and hopefully, Rafa can get the best out of the two toungsters.

Here are some good comments coming from Newcastle fans who seem to be generally pleased with the capture of the two youngsters – especially Jacob Murphy.

#nufc to announce Jacob Murphy and Javi Manquillo at once this afternoon @NUFC

Would people have been happier if we’d paid £20m for Murphy? The price bears no relation to the ability. Spurs paid 30m for Sissoko and Murphy is an upgrade on him imo. Kudos to Penfold for refusing to pay 16m for the lad and getting them down to a more realistic price.

This could be a well crafted plan and under Rafa’s guidance be on target. Namely to offload those with no future at the club while recruiting a number of young guns at great value and once confident that he has the cover in place complete the squad with the signature signings of two or three PL level experienced older hands ( well one keeper with older hands and two others with good feet ! )

Good piece of business so far but i feel we’re wasting a bit too much time looking for a keeper when we desperately need a ST and CAM. The LB from Betis we’ve been lonked with looks really good fyom the videos I’ve seen. Definitely an upgrade on Dummett.

JP, Rafa has already said they’re looking for a striker mate, it’s all in hand. He won’t go any further than that though for obvious reasons. He might see Ritchie as a No10 this season, with wingers being a plenty and Ritchie’s lack of real pace. Good skill, can pick a killer pass and knows where the goal is. I wouldn’t be surprised to see him tried there in pre season.

OT, Aye we’ll have to agree to disagree, just because a player didn’t feature much it doesn’t make him a dud. He was bought so the pack didn’t have to be shuffled too much in the event of injuries, I think he will be kept to do the same job this season . Bobby, Is the book Rafa’s way any good?

Bobbybee- would love to see Batshuayi here, but there are a few quality strikers available that we could lure to St James’. Remy, Cicharito, Sturridge etc are all possible, must be expensive to get them but good strikers are seldom cheap. Like the sound of Ritchie as a Number 10 / CAM. I think he’s be brilliant there. What I like is that Rafa is slowly ridding us from the deadwood and replacing them with promising young talent with pace.

Still a few left like Riviere, Krul, Colback, Lazaar, Haidara and Hanley. Hopefully come September they are all replaced with quality youngsters.

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